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GEOFFREY BLYTHE : ENGLISH AMBASSA-
DOR TO HUNGARY, 1502. MR. MANWARING
has kindly pointed out to me that Reumont
has derived his information about Chris-
topher Urswick (see ante p. 54) from
Rawdon Brown's ' Four Years at the Court
of Henry VIII.' (London, 1854). No re-
ference is given, I am told, but in vol. i. of
the ' Calendar of Venetian State Papers '
there are two entries (Nos. 827, 828) about
an English ambassador, who had been to
Hungary in 1502, and had arrived back in
Venice on Dec. 5 of that year on his way
home. This was no other than the diplomat
about whom I inquired more or less a quarter
of a century ago, but whom I was unable to
identify (8*S iii. 101). According to Marino
Sanuto, he was a doctor and priest; and
" Pierre Cheque dit Bretagne," the herald
of the Queen of France, giving his name as
" Messire Gauffray Bleist " (sic), described
him as " le doyen de Salzbery," and men-
tioned that he had with him " pour officier
d'armes Somb reset, herault," when they
attended together the wedding of the King
of Hungary (Vladislaus II.) with Anne de
Candalle (Kendall) at Buda, the Hungarian
capital, on Sept. 29, 1502. MR. MANWARING
has now identified him as Geoffrey Blythe,
then Dean of York, also a well-known
diplomat (see ' D.N.B.'), who had been
collated to the Archdeaconry of Sarum in
August, 1499, and on his return from
Hungary was rewarded with the bishopric of
Lichfield and Coventry. His credentials as
special ambassador to the King of Hungary
and Bohemia are printed in Rymer's ' Fo3-
dera ' (vol. xiii. pp. 4 and 5 of the 1712
edition, ' De Liga cum Ladislao . . . . Rege
contra Mahumetanos '), and are dated
May 27, 1502. L. L. K.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
" BENEDICT," THE DELLA CRUSCAN. In
the year 1785, Mr. and Mrs. Piozzi were
residing in Florence, and with Robert Merry,
Bertie Greatheed, and others, were members
of a literary- circle known as the Delia
Cruscans. On returning to England some
of them, together with other writers, con-
tributed verses to a daily newspaper called
The World, between the years 1787 and 1791.
Their productions were known as Delia
Cruscan poetry, and were subsequently
satirized by William Gifford in the ' Baviad.'
One of the group who used the pen-name
" Benedict " contributed eleven sonnets in
1787 and 1788, which are reprinted in the
' Poetry of the World ' (1788), vol. ii.
pp. 122-32. Sheridan and " Perdita "
Robinson were also associated with The
World.
It is desired for a literary purpose to identify the versifier " Benedict."
E. BASIL LUPTOMT.
37 Langdon Street, Cambridge, Mass., U.8.A.
THE KING'S GENTLEMEN VOLUNTEERS IN THE ROYAL NAVY IN 1692. A squire, apply- ing to an influential friend in January, 1691/2, on behalf of one of his sons, desires the friend
" to provide for him as one of y Hinges Gentle- men Volunteers on board y e Admiral, or with such other good Comm(an)der as you shall judge fittest for him, where he may have his Dyet with y* Captain & such pay as is allowed unto other Volunteers."
I should be glad to have further informa- tion as to the way in which at this time youths were admitted into the Navy, with a view to becoming commissioned officers. JOHN R. MAGRATH.
Queen's College, Oxford.
" YE OLDE FULHAM BRIDGE TAVERN." What is the explanation of Ye Olde Fulham Bridge Tavern in the Brompton Road and Fulham Bridge Yard, approached from Brompton Road by Tullett Place ? Neither of these is near Fulham. Was the land ever assigned for the maintenance of Putney (or Fulham) Bridge ? B. C. S.
DEMOSTHENES : REFERENCE WANTED. Can any of your readers inform me where in Demosthenes there is a phrase similar to that made use of by Disraeli in his reference to Gladstone as being " inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity" ?
A. GWYTHEH.
Windham Club, St. James's Square, S.W.
A " JUDY." In the Glamorgan coal dis- trict a woman is frequently referred to by young fellows as a Judy. To me it seems an odious word in this context, and it is no doubt an importation from over the border. Is the word so used in any part of England, and if so, where ? ARTHUR MEE.
Cardiff.
MICHAEL SMITH, D.D. I should like to see a biographical sketch of Michael Smith, D.D., clerk in Holy Orders, who was living at Freckenham in Suffolk in 1762.
J. W. F.
